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To: OWK
The only means which men have at their disposal to infringe upon the rights of others are initiated force, threat of initiated force, and fraud. Recognition of this truth, provides the foundation of a moral code. Initiated force, threat of initiated force, and fraud, are immoral inasmuch as they act to infringe man’s pursuit of his happiness as he defines it. All initiated force, threat of initiated force, or fraud, are immoral, whether perpetrated by an individual or by a collection of individuals sometimes known as government.

It is not a truth. It is merely a convenient axiom that libertarians pulled out of their rear ends to base their whole philosophy upon.

60 posted on 02/26/2003 10:05:31 AM PST by Rightwing Conspiratr1
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To: Van Jenerette
...for class.
62 posted on 02/26/2003 10:08:09 AM PST by Van Jenerette (Our Republic...If We Can Keep It!)
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To: Rightwing Conspiratr1
It is not a truth.

Please elaborate.

Describe for me a means by which one man might violate the rights of another, that does not involve initiated force, or fraud.

I'm on the edge of my seat.

63 posted on 02/26/2003 10:12:22 AM PST by OWK
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